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HOMES BULLDOZED
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Marshals evict squatters
French cabinet steps down;
Premier Messmer reinstated
Stanley H. Kaplan STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) -th
United States marshals yester- of
Ed uca ionaICenter day evicted a colony of squat- the
ters occupying the site of a fed- C
Classes now being formed for the upcoming eral dam project and began to th
bulldoze t h e i r abandoned pl
homes. th
MCAT LSAT "They were there illegally sot
so we are removing them," said ula
DAT A T GSB IChristopher Rice, a spokesman gr
EGfor the U. S. Justice Depart-
Th marshals, armed with re- re
B EXAMSvolvers, knocked on doors of the the
21 rundown structures the squat- t
ters have called home since ar- to]
For more information call (313) 354-0085 rival in the late 1960s. The mar- by
shals presented letters telling the ha
inhabitants they were being ask- wi
ed to leave as the result of an be
eviction order issued by a feder-
al judge. a
THE SQUATTERS, estimated we
to number about 45, were led out sa
and driven to roadblocks on the ha
fringe of the lush valley that 1
flanks the Delaware River near th
kthis. Pocono Mountain communfim
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squatters to remain there has so
' been a continuing headache for ba
the government. uk
In September 1971, a court or- L
der was granted permitting the pi
government to move in. U. S. ba
marshals bulldozed a dozen th
buildings but pulled back when
some of the squatters flung gi
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emselves on the ground in front
the bulldozers and perched on
t roofs of houses to be toppled.
Generally in their 20s and 30s,
t squatters declared a "peo-
e's right" to the land, on which
ey maintained farms and tilled
)me gardens. State police reg-
arly confiscated marijuana
own on the land.
SPORADIC INCIDENTS of vio-
nce and vandalism have been
ported by both officials and
e squatters.
Government trucks have been
rched, supply buildings owned
the Army Corps of Engineers
ave been burned down and
ndows of corps' cars have
en shattered by shotgun blasts.
The squatters, in turn, claim
barn used to store belongings
as burned to the ground. They
y they have been shot at and
arassed by police.
Most of the squatters declare
emselves 'dropouts' from a
ore conventional society.
Some of the squatters sat at
e roadblock and sang folk
ngs to the accompaniment of a
anjo, a couple of guitars and a
kelele.
ATER, CARS, campers and
ckup trucks, some loaded with
attered luggage, began leaving
e area.
Sue Rosario, who said she had
ven birth to a child Tuesday
night in her squatter home be-
cause she had no car to get to
a hospital, said she and her hus-
band Ralph would go to live with
a friend in nearby Bartonsville.
Dave Smith, another squatter,
said he intended to go back.
"This is where I live . . . I
feed the birds and I prune the
apple trees. That's all the taxes
I have to pay."
DENISE DRAMM said she did-
n't know where she and her
three children would go. "I'm
waiting for the Lord to tell me,"
she said.
Weapons, ammunition and
drugs were uncovered in some of
the houses before they were flat-
tened.
U. S. Attorney John Cottone
called the operation a success
but added: "We don't plan any
arrests for illegal possession,
either of drugs or weapons, be-
cause we can't really be sure
who owns what."
THE MULTIMILLION dollar
Tocks Island Dam project has
been hindered by a lack of mon-
ey and by court challenges by
environmentalists since its in-
ception in the 1960s. The dam
would create a 37-mile-long lake
extending into New York State.
In addition to flood control, it
would provide recreation and
electricity.'
Rice said federal, state and
local officials have developed
plans to assist those evicted in
relocating by offering them
transportation, storage for their
belongings and temporary care
for their animals. Foods and
medical care were also avail-
able, he said.
By AP and Reuter
PARIS - Prime Minister
Pierre Messmer and his gov-
ernment resigned in a surprise
move yesterday, but French
President Georges Pompidou al-
most immediately reappointed
the 57-year-old Gaullist to head
a new government.
The Messmer reappointment
was announced last night in a
brief statement by a presidential
spokesperson which said: "The
president has named Pierre
Messmer as Prime Minister."
THE GOVERNMENT resigna-
tion at first stirred speculation
that Pompidou would bring in a
more popular government chief,
but it soon became clear that the
objective was to strengthen the
cabinet by making it more com-
pact and united.
Pompidou is known to have tak-
en strong exception to critic-
ism of the government frequent-
ly voiced in private by its own
members.
Cabinet sources said that Mess-
mer, who became Prime Minister
in July 1972, wanted to form a
team of "loyal men" able to
govern, obey and act more ef-
ficiently than the old unwieldly
team of 38 ministers and secre-
taries of state.
ACCORDING to the sources,
the strategy of mass resignation
was preferred by Messmer to
that of the more customary shuf-
fle. It enables him to make the
changes he likes without caus-
ing ill-feeling by dropping some
ministers and retaining others.
Messmer met Pompidou f o r
half an hour last night, presum-
ably to obtain his approval of a
new government list he worked
on during the afternoon. The new
government is expected to be
announced today.
Two prominent members of
the outgoing government, Fin-
ance Minister Valery Destaing
and Foreign Minister Michel Jo-
bert, were regarded as certain
to remain in the new cabinet.
YESTERDAY'S political drama
was also unlikely to herald any
big changes in French policy at
home or abroad, since Pompidou
is the chief policy-maker and the
prime minister acts mostly as his
executive.
Messmer, a silver-haired, hard-
working administrator, w a s
brought in by. Pompidou to head
the government in July, 1972,
when his predecessor, Jacques
Chaban-Delmas, was dropped
amid a series of scandals that
shook the Gaullist ranks.
Although he failed to reviva
Gaullist morale in that period-
the Gaullists and their allies saw
their parliamentary majority ser-
iously reduced in general elec-
tions a year ago - Pompidou
praised Messmer yesterday for
his stewardship.
MESSMER himself has no ap-
parent ambitions concerning the
presidency, a continual considera-
tion in F r e n c h political life
since reports that Pompidou
could cut his term short because
of illness.
Pompidou's seven-year man-
date runs out in 1976.
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